Best Metal Songs of the 70s

Well I'm a more of hard rock fan than metal. But I also listen some metal songs.

But most often I listen to metal songs of 80s or 90s by Iron Maiden or Metallica.

So it was quite difficult for me to choose 70s metal music.

Please add more if I miss something
The Top Ten
1 Highway Star - Deep Purple

This is one of the first metal songs, early speed metal. It's clasically inspired (based on Bach scales) and its solo was the first true metal solo. It's not hard rock - hard rock is blues inspired.

Great drive, fantastic keyboard, great drums, one of the best guitar solos ever.

It's hard rock.

2 Stargazer - Rainbow

A 100% metal song. Epic masterpiece from Ritchie Blackmore and Dio (1976).

3 Child In Time - Deep Purple
4 Victim of Changes - Judas Priest

This is a great song but it's actually blues rock - a bit heavier blues rock but still blues elements are too noticeable. Yet, their song Beyond The Realms Of Death is metal as well as some others.

Whiskey woman don't you know you're driving me insane? One of the best songs from one of the best albums of the 70s.

5 Beyond the Realms of Death - Judas Priest

One of the greatest metal songs I know. Excellent. Chills up and down my spine.

6 A Light In the Black - Rainbow

Epic yet very fast song with the most impressive metal guitar solo of the 70s (Ritchie Blackmore). The solo is long, fast, technical and melodic.

7 Paranoid - Black Sabbath

It's not a metal song in the strict sense. Just saying.

8 War Pigs - Black Sabbath
9 Iron Man - Black Sabbath
10 Gates of Babylon - Rainbow
The Contenders
11 Working Man - Rush

Though it may not be metal to some people but this song is heavier than many hard rock songs and it's close to the heavy metal.Especially the the opening riff

12 Dissident Aggressor - Judas Priest
13 Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
14 Burn - Deep Purple
15 Hell Bent for Leather - Judas Priest
16 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

The song that began metal!

17 Róisín Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend - Thin Lizzy
18 Runnin' with the Devil - Van Halen
19 Overkill - Motörhead
20 Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin
21 The Riot of Your Time - Scorpions
22 The Sails of Charon - Scorpions
23 Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin

@zxm - many parts of the wiki articles on metal are awful. Viking metal is very close to black metal. This is correct: "Viking metal is a style of heavy metal music with origins in black metal and Nordic folk music".
So how is Immigrant Song close to black metal/viking metal? I am not even sure this song is metal.

I used to think wikipedia is always right.But now I think they are not always not right

Wikipedia says it's viking metal

24 Kill the King - Rainbow
25 Bird of Prey - Uriah Heep
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